Maryland Code, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS 14-602
Terms Used In Maryland Code, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS 14-602
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a person may not use the words or terms “Dr.”, “doctor”, “physician”, “D.O.”, or “M.D.” with the intent to represent that the person practices medicine, unless the person is:
(1) Licensed to practice medicine under this title;
(2) A physician licensed by and residing in another jurisdiction, while engaging in consultation with a physician licensed in this State;
(3) A physician employed by the federal government while performing duties incident to that employment;
(4) A physician who resides in and is licensed to practice medicine by any state adjoining this State and whose practice extends into this State; or
(5) An individual in a postgraduate medical program that is accredited by an accrediting organization recognized by the Board in regulations while the individual is practicing medicine in the program.
(c) An unlicensed individual who acts under § 14-302 or § 14-306 of this title may use the word “physician” together with another word to describe the occupation of the individual as in phrases such as “physician’s assistant” or “physician’s aide”.